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Author
Series
George Smiley novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A veteran spy wants to "come in from the cold" to retirement. He undertakes one last assignment in which he pretends defection and provides the enemy with sufficient evidence to label their leader a double agent.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
There is no terror so consistent, so elusive, as that which haunts a spy in a strange country. The world into which Avery had been launched had contributed to a state of constant anxiety. He moved through the crowd like a hunted man in search of rest and food.
323) The mission song
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Working as an interpreter for British Intelligence, Bruno Salvador, the abandoned son of an Irish father and Congolese mother, is sent to a mysterious island to interpret a secret conference among Central African warlords.
Author
Series
Secret agent Jack Stalwart volume 6
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Spy Jack Stalwart must stop the poachers in Kenya.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A world at war. A beautiful young star. A mission no one expected. Paris, 1944. Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, the chanteuse's position of privilege allows her to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian de Rocheford, is captured by Nazis, Genevieve knows it won't be long before the Gestapo succeeds in torturing information out of Lillian...
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
1970, Ciudad de México. Maite trabaja como secretaria, pero solo vive para una cosa: la siguiente entrega de «Romance secreto». Las protestas estudiantiles y la inestabilidad política asedian la ciudad, pero ella se evade de todo gracias a esas maravillosas historias de pasión y riesgo. La vecina de la puerta de al lado, una atractiva estudiante de arte llamada Leonora, parece llevar una vida repleta de intriga y romance, algo que Maite envidia....
327) Real tigers
Author
Series
Slough House volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When one of their own is kidnapped by a vengeful former soldier, the "slow horses"--disgraced MI5 operatives reassigned to administrative jobs--find themselves back in the game when they uncover a conspiracy that threatens the very future of MI5 itself.
Author
Series
Agent John Adderley novels volume 1
Publisher
Overlook Press, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After surviving a brutal attack and with a price on his head, undercover FBI Agent John Adderley investigates a high-profile cold case involving a young heiress. He is determined to solve this case while hiding-out and until he can testify against the drug cartel he infiltrated back in the States."--
329) SPHDZ 4 Life!
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
With a mysterious new principal and fifth-grade graduation fast approaching, will Michael K. and his friends be able to find the missing Brainwave before the chief of the Anti-Alien Agency uses it to destroy a planet?
330) City of spies
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
331) Once a spy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hoping to find new meaning in his life, British intelligence officer Simon Duval resigns his commission and returns to England, where he finds his cousin's widow, Suzanne Duval, the Comtesse de Chambron. Working as a seamstress, living in reduced circumstances among London's French émigré community, Suzanne has had a life as complicated as Simon's own. While both believe they are beyond love and passion, their sympathetic bond leads him to propose...
332) Orders from Berlin
Author
Series
Inspector Trave and Detective Clayton mysteries volume Prequel
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A tale set in 1940 London marks the beginning of Detective Bill Trave's career and follows his investigation into an MI6 former chief's murder, which is linked to an assassination plot against Churchill.
333) The red ribbon
Author
Series
Publisher
Querus
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In 1910 London, Captain Vernon Kell's fledgling secret intelligence service faces being shut down before it has even begun its job of saving the British Empire from German and Russian spies. Harassed by politicians like the ambitious Winston Churchill, bullied by Special Branch, undermined by his colleague's ill-advised foreign ventures, and alarmed at his wife's involvement with militant suffragettes, Kell is making no progress in tracking high-profile...
334) Dead drop
Author
Series
Handler novels volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"International nuclear negotiations turns allies into enemies in this electrifying thriller from the author of The Handler. Nuclear negotiations between the United States and Iran have reached a crisis point. The new American administration is determined to move ahead, but there are several stumbling blocks, not the least of which is Lieutenant Colonel Kasem Khalidi, the Iranian intelligence officer the CIA has hidden away in one of its safe houses....
335) Boots
Author
Series
League of Secret Heroes volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Mae's Aunt Willa and Aunt Jane, both pilots, are kidnapped by evil Metallic Falcon, Josie, Mae, and Akiko, the Infinity Trinity, pursue them from Chicago to Sweetwater, Texas, to Paris, France.
336) Forbidden city
Author
Series
City spies volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"After taking down a mole within their organization, the City Spies are ready for their next mission--once again using their unique skills and ability to infiltrate places adults can't. The sinister Umbra has their sights set on recruiting a North Korean nuclear physicist by any means necessary, and the City Spies plan to keep an eye on his son by sending Paris to the chess prodigy's tournaments in Moscow and Beijing. Meanwhile, Sydney's embedded...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An attack on a Japanese warship brings Japan and China to the brink of war. Meanwhile, top Covert-One operative Colonel Jon Smith is sent on a mission to recover mysterious material from the wreckage of the Fukushima nuclear reactor. When Smith fails to return, CIA agent Randi Russell heads off on an unsanctioned mission to find him. She quickly discovers that the missing samples may be evidence that Japan, led by hawkish military chief of staff...
Author
Series
Spy on history volume 1
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
During the Civil War, African American Mary Bowser becomes a maid in the Richmond mansion of Confederate States of America president Jefferson Davis as part of a plan to pass along secrets to help the Union. Includes a replica of a Confederate decoder, plus other spycraft materials, in a sealed envelope to help the reader discover clues found in the text and illustrations.
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